Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246756 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
HFI Working Paper No. 2
Publisher: 
Institute of Retail Economics (HFI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
The number of refugees in Europe has increased dramatically in recent years, and many countries are facing great challenges to integrating these refugees into their societies. A small group of high-growth firms have at the same time attracted attention because they create the most new jobs at any given point in time. Using matched employer-employee data from Statistics Sweden, we find that these high-growth firms in general are more likely to recruit first-generation immigrants that are unemployed. This provides support for the hypothesis that managers in high-growth firms, to greater extents, recruit marginalized individuals because they want to take advantage of their growth opportunities and therefore do not wait for the best match. Rapidly growing firms are thus less selective in their hiring decisions, and policies that are focused on increasing the number of high-growth firms might also help immigrants who face difficulties entering the labor market.
Subjects: 
Firm growth
Gazelles
High-growth firms
Immigration
Integration
Labor market
Matching models
Resource based theory
Interaction effects
Logit
Odds ratio
JEL: 
D22
J15
L25
L26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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